Hurricane season 2022 is almost here, and security leaders throughout the U.S. must review their emergency plans to ensure employee safety and business resilience.
After a tornado struck the Edwardsville, Illinois Amazon warehouse, a workplace safety review by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found flaws in the facility's emergency action plan (EAP).
Organizations looking to reduce their risk of being impacted by a severe weather incident may consider conducting a tabletop drill, an emergency management tool designed to increase business resilience.
Detroit Alerts 365 will send emergency alerts to residents based on their location, including notifications about missing persons, severe weather and other emergencies.
Enterprise decision makers know to “expect the unexpected” when it comes to business continuity planning. But the increasingly complex threat environment is challenging organizations as never before to prepare for an expanding range of incidents.
47% of emergency decision-makers said severe and extreme weather events are their leading concern when it comes to emergency communications and response, outpacing other events such as active shooters (23%), cybersecurity attacks (13%), IT outages (10%) and workplace violence (6%).
It’s not just the resiliency of the citizens of New Orleans that has earned the right to be celebrated this hurricane season. Businesses should also be celebrated for their resiliency. I recently spoke with executives from Cooperative Processing Resources (CPR) and LifeShare Blood Centers about the ways they avoided severe downtime during Hurricane Katrina, and bounced back as even more resilient organizations.
The number of electrical outages affecting 50,000 or more people for at least an hour doubled during the decade up to 2012. Most of the blackouts were caused by damage to large transmission lines and substations during extreme weather events, a new analysis from nonprofit Climate Central says. Michigan has the most outages, followed by Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
